Boiler Piping Refit With MegaPress XL

Greg Gauthier has been using MegaPress regularly for years, so when he needed some larger-diameter carbon steel pipe fittings, MegaPress XL was the perfect fit.

Gauthier Plumbing and Heating, located in Worcester, Massachusetts, replaced piping for two boilers in late summer at a newly established veterinary hospital in Northbridge, Massachusetts. The building had been vacant for about five years, and Gauthier said there was some cracking and wear to the boiler piping that was redone using primarily 3" carbon steel pipes and MegaPress XL fittings.

“We’ve used MegaPress for the past five years, and the ProPress for several years – including the larger diameters – so we knew that using the MegaPress XL would save us a significant amount of time,” Gauthier said. “We saw a demo of the XL, and it was that or I had to get a welder in. I thought, ‘Let’s go with the fittings. They’re cleaner, smoother and a better application.’”

He borrowed a PressBooster tool from Viega reps and got to work, putting in approximately 25 MegaPress XL fittings. Gauthier said the product was “awesome, absolutely perfect, a great tool and asset,” and that he will look in the future to purchase his own PressBooster and larger jaws, as he knows he’ll have need for them again. ■